I noticed the NIC's throughput would spike up to 95 mbps on a NIC configured for 100 mbps.  I don't know the danger point with NICs in terms of a...

Further investigation revealed the page faults occur every 15 minutes while a transaction log backup job is running.  The backup job copies the T-Log file to a server located at...

Thanks.  I've seen this article and actually have run his scripts on a few servers.  I'm more concerned with understanding how Page Faults/Sec can be high when paging is only 2%.

In regards...

Thanks all.  I'll give Performance Tuning Corp. a call to get some more info. on their course.

Dave

I did not know that one.  Thanks.  I'll give it a try.

Dave

We have MOM and it works well for monitoring the SQL Server services, disk space, backups and Event Logs, but I wasn't aware it could monitor the perfmon objects and...

How about Red-Gate's SQL Log Rescue vs. Lumigent's Log Explorer?  Have you tried either?

Dave

Thanks Rick.  Fortunately it completed just before I killed the process.

Dave

Thanks for your input.  We found the MSDTC issue in a Q article.  As soon as we saw it we decided testing was necessary.  I appreciate your help.

Dave

I asked because there are certain situations where regression testing may not be necessary.  Many companies are willing to apply an OS hot fix without regression testing their applications.  The...

I'm afraid I don't find your comment amusing.

I should have explained the situation a bit better.  We had planned to test the hardware upgrade, but the testing involved for a hardware upgrade is fairly basic since we...

I'll give it a try.  Thanks for the help.

Dave

If I put all of the DOS commands in a bat file is there a way to know if each command completed successfully?

Dave

The job is to be invoked by a nightly batch process.  The time it will be invoked each night depends upon how quickly the nightly batch process runs.  I was...